Hawkins v. Wilson
Supreme Court of Vermont
Action op Contract on the general counts. Pleas, the general issue, lack of consideration, and statute of frauds. Heard by the Montpelier City Court, Washington County, on January 26, 1920, Erwin M. Harvey, Judge. Judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the ease.
1Opinion of the CourtMiles, J.
On February 27, 1915, the plaintiff was about to ship from Lyndonville to Blandensville, Illinois, by freight, a carload of ponies, and had loaded them into a live stock car, when the defendant, agent of the American Express Company, solicited the shipment by express. The rate by express was discussed, and the defendant offered to look it up, and did so, and named the rate as $285. Later in the day a contract in writing was entered into between the plaintiff' and the defendant, acting in behalf of and for the express company. A blank contract over the signature of the American Express Company…
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